Forms of Devotion - Tapa blanda

'Filled with wry humour ... an incredible ability to capture both the mundane and the erotically charged' Toronto Globe and Mail 'Her ambitious irony and her eclectic matching of idea to form combine in a rare and often beautiful virtuosity ... an incredibly agile writer with a wonderful ear, and a thinker with elegant, difficult ideas ... her work is a show not to be missed' Boston Book Review 'She takes familiar models - the fairy tale, the murder mystery, the instruction manual - and experiments with them' New York Times 'No one else combines emotion and intellect, heart and mind like Diane Schoemperlen ... one of the most vibrant and original voices in our literature' Toronto Star 'Filled with wit and irony and humour ... a delightful piece of work' Ottawa Citizen

This book offers eleven stories with a brilliant interplay between words and images - a creative delight, perfectly formed and rich in wit and irony. It presents wood engravings and line drawings, often in collage, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, and multi-layers of meaning with playful, sometimes surreal, and often mysterious juxtapositions. "Forms of Devotion" won the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction, and has also been published in the USA, Germany, Spain and Korea.